1941-03-22 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 22, 1941.

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HIS 'PLANE

HE RACED DEATH EAGLE HIT

TO DESIGN A WONDER 'PLANE

KNOWING THAT he had only a few months to live, Reginald Joseph Mitchell, brilliant young air- craft designer, stuck to his drawing board in great pain, and before he died completed the design for the Spitfire fighter 'plane.

The dramatic story of his struggle is to be told in a film. It will be a tribute to a British patriot who died in 1937 aged 42.

A famous British film

star will play the part of REGAINS

the designer.

Mitchell was apprenticed at an early age in Stoke-on-Trent, and became chief designer at the Su- permarine Aviation Works at Southampton when only 25.

The machine he designed won the Schneider Trophy outright in 1931, His last task was the design of the Vickers' "Super- marine Spitfire No. 1,"

VOICE

BY LOVE

He was given a year to experi- ment Half-way through the year Love has done his health broke down.

for

Doctors told him that there thirty-five-year-old Gun- was no hope of recovery. Hner Tony Allen what had only a few months to live. specialists had failed to

Triumphant

Peter Strong, son of the Rector of Sandy, Bedfordshire, and now in the South African Air Force, was stunt- ing at 150 to 200 m.p.h. near his aero- drone when his 'plane struck an African

eagle.

Half the tip of 'plane wing was torn away. Peter went into O vertical dive at 1,200ft. and manag- ed to pull out only 200ft. from the ground. He made a perfect landing.

"EAGLE" FLYER KILLED

ONE OF THE MANY AMERI-

achieve restored the CANS WHO CAME TO ENG- LAND SOON AFTER WAR BE- GAN TO JOIN THE R.A.F., PI-

He accepted their verdict brave- voice which he lost after ly, but he kept at his drawing being severely wounded at board, believing that war with Germany was inevitable.

His wife remained constantly by his side. Before his death, he had the satisfaction of knowing that the first model Spitfire had under- gone a triumphant test fight.

CATHOLIC ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI

Cardinal Hinsley, Ro- man Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, broadcast some words of Mussolini --but they could give the Italian dictator no com- fort.

"Mussolini," said Cardinal Hin- sley, "once wrote words which might have provided points of meditation for Hitler at the Bren- ner Pass.

Dunkirk.

He was one of the convalescent

LOT-OFFICER PHILIP HO- WARD LECKRONE, OF THE

soldiers from a military hospital AMERICAN "EAGLE" SQUA- invited to tea by blunde Miss Mid-DRON HAS BEEN KILLED dleton, a hairdresser, of Ecclesall A FLYING ACCIDENT.

Road. Sheffield

не could only make signa with his hands. A friend of his told her of Tony's terrible ex- periences at Dunkirk,

The pair met оп two more occasions.

Then came the night of the Sheffield blitz. Through the long hours Tony lay in bed racked with anxiety for the safety of Miss Middleton,

he

When at last dawn came was first up and walked eight miles through debris-strewn streets to her home.

Wasted No Time

self opened the door to his knock and smiled at him,

His heart leapt when she her-

Hera Teapt too when, in A clear voice, Tony said: "I'm so glad you are safe. .I couldn't rest wondering if you were all right."

Tony, overjoyed by the recovery of his voice, wasted no time. He proposed and was accepted.

In a few weeks, when he gets

***A fight against religion,' said the Duce, is a fight against the implaceable, against the intangi-his discharge from the Army, Tony and Kay are to be married in Sheffield."

ble.

"I realised that if seeing her could restore my voice like that she was the girl for me," he told a reporter. Tony plans to return to the stage where before the war he played character parts in reper-

It is open warfare against the spirit in its most profound and most significant force and it is by this time fully proved that the weapons of the State, no matter how sharp they may be, are powerless to inflict any mortal blow on the Church which em- erges triumphant after engaging tory. the most bitter conflicts."

"This is surely a timely lesson to remind all rulers of that Divine promise 'the gates of hell shall not prevall." "

MILLIONAIRE IS PRIVATE IN THE ARMY

WIFE STAYED

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HOME - DECREE

TWENTY YEARS AGO A WIFE REFUSED TO LEAVE HER HOME VILLAGE TO LIVE WITH HER HUSBAND IN THE TOWN WHERE HE WORKED.

Now in the Divorce Court the husband Mr. Jack Roberts, of Clarendon Road, Norwich, has been granted a decree nisi for desertion.

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His wife, Florence, lives Terrington St. Clements, Norfolk. The marriage took place at Ter- rington St. Clements in 1920 and the following year Mrs. Roberts

Dozens of New York debutantes, actresses and night club proprie- tors are upset because Winthrop Rockefeller, 28-years-old grand- son of the late John D. Rockefel- refused to live with her husband ler, is joining the United States in Norwich,

army as a private.

Winthrop, who has not yet de-

cided whether to serve, one year LOVES HIS MOTHER-

or three, spent the day clearing

out his desk in the foreign.depart

ment of the Socony Vacuum Oil Company,

IN-LAW

Judge Rudolph. Desort, of Chl-

In any case he will exchange cago, thought he had heard, every his luxurious limousine, for an angle in a divorce case-until he army lorry, his silk shirts. formet Mr. Walter Appelt, defend. khak! and his penthouse and ant in a divorce suit brought by country home for an Army tent, his wife.

He grinned, delighted, when he|- Appelt told the Judge that he was asked about it...

had a sincere ́affection" for his "What's good for others is good | mother-in-law, and wanted to enough for me,” he said... | support her.--Reuter,.

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He was buried with honours in the village churchyard near his station in England,

The United States Embassy in London sent an American

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Leckrone took part in the air fighting last autumn, and shot down one enemy aircraft into the

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